It has gotten worse with each upgrade it seems (could be my imagination)
i get huuuuuge spaces between words occasionally it has become very distracting as it makes the eye dance all over, i also have a lot of blank space at the bottom of each page (some worse than others)

is it possible it is related to my font size being rather large? i have line spacing set extremely low and margins off

is there an easy way i can use Calibre and do a conversion to eliminate this?

I suspect simple reading glasses will not work for your eyes. Recently I discovered I could not read menu in dim restaurant light so I put 1.5X reading glasses in front of my prescription glasses so I could read. I didn't care if it looked silly. If that restaurant was any darker everyone would have needed a flash light or white cane. As it was couldn't see the floor in some places. Reading glasses cost less than $10.00.

i do wear drug store glasses currently heh
even with them on i need large fonts (cannot read actual paperbacks at all at this point , my main reason for getting a kobo)

all my books are sideloaded epubs without DRM

gotta be some way i can fix this,no?

In that case you should be able to strip the formatting with calibre and then you'll be able to turn off justification. A number of threads around on how to do this and you might only need to strip out the justification part of css file to let you do this.

In that case you should be able to strip the formatting with calibre and then you'll be able to turn off justification. A number of threads around on how to do this and you might only need to strip out the justification part of css file to let you do this.

I did not know that Calibre could be used for that. How do you do it? Converting epub to epub? I have been using Sigil to edit the css file...